 ... by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth, an ingenious expedient which is still kept up by some families in Albany; but which prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated...  The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Page 2421821Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 304 pages
...lady, which was, to suspend a large lump directly over the tea table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth, —...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flat-Bush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 476 pages
...lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth —...in Albany ; but which prevails without exception in Cornmunipaw, Bergen, Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-parties... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...old lady, which was to suspend a lanie lump directly over the tea-table by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth —...prevails without exception in Communipaw. Bergen, Fiathush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. gentlemen with no brains at all. On the contrary,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1856 - 470 pages
...lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth —...in Albany ; but which prevails without exception in Oommunipaw, Bergen, Flatbush. and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-parties... | |
 | Jean Roemer - 1857 - 332 pages
...old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth —...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated / Dutch villages. *• [ At these primitive tea-parties the utmost... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth> —...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flat-Bush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages LESSON LXIII. CCEUR-DE-LION AT THE GRAVE OF HIS... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 428 pages
...lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth —...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 478 pages
...from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth—an ingenious expedient, which Ls still kept up by some families in Albany; but which...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1860 - 606 pages
...lump directly over the tea-table by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from month to mouth — an ingenious expedient, which is still...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages." It does one good to read such as this, even for... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 450 pages
...that are afiectedlj nice or showy ; fops. — ' Al tSrn' ate ly, by turns ; one after another. 13. At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety...and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting1 — no gambling of old ladies nor hoyden8 chattering and romping of young ones — no self-satisfied... | |
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